A. Subject to any regulations the supervisor may prescribe, an association may maintain and lease safe deposit boxes and may accept property or documents for safekeeping if, with the exception of night depositories, it issues a receipt for each transaction.
B. An association may own stock in safe deposit companies not exceeding in aggregate cost fifteen percent of its capital and surplus, but at least ninety percent of the stock in each such safe deposit company must be owned by associations, banks or trust companies.
History: 1953 Comp., § 48-15-144, enacted by Laws 1971, ch. 242, § 4.
ANNOTATIONSCross references. — For meaning of "supervisor", see 58-10-2J NMSA 1978.
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 10 Am. Jur. 2d Banks §§ 469 to 492.
Liability of bank or safe-deposit company for its employee's theft or misappropriation of contents of safe-deposit box, 39 A.L.R.4th 543.